Karlsruhe-CMS produced 102 Petals for the CMS Tracker amongst other contributions to CMS. Karlsruhe was also a Petal production centre and, from the very beginning, has been one of the irradiation centres for detector elements of all kind.
The University of Karlsruhe group joined CMS in 1995. The main emphasis of the group was in the construction of the Tracker, in computing, software development and data analysis. Following the development of an MSGC-based tracking system, we turned to the silicon technology and contributed to all aspects of the Tracker endcap (TEC) construction: Module and Petal production, quality control and radiation-hardness studies. In computing, we helped to build the Tier-1 centre GridKa in Karlsruhe which serves all LHC experiments and four smaller experiments as well.
Through a merger with the Karlsruhe Research Centre, the University has transformed into the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT. The CMS group of the Institute of Elementary Particle Physics (ETP) has expanded through the acquisition of associate members from other KIT institutes forming a team of about 90 members, amongst these being five professors, 18 postdoctoral scientists, 24 graduate students and nine engineers. The group’s physics interest lies in QCD jet physics, in the single-top process, di-boson scattering, Higgs physics and in particular SUSY Higgs boson production.
Following the construction of parts of the Pixel Tracker upgrade for Phase-1 Upgrade, the group is preparing the Phase-2 Upgrade with the emphasis again on the Tracker endcap and the development of track trigger ASICs. With this programme, the KIT group will be part of CMS at least until 2026.
About The University of Karlsruhe
From: Germany
CMS member since: 1995
Website: http://www.etp.kit.edu/cms.php